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New SONOS app: many features no longer available!

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 7, 2024
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Think twice before you install the new SONOS app as at least the following features are no longer available (temporarily or permanently):

Sleeptimer has disappeared completely. Either you sleep the entire night with music on or you wake up to switch off the music… Quite defeats the purpose.
Alarms: creating and editing an alarm is no longer possible. You can only toggle an existing alarm on and off.
Local music library: make sure you don’t remove it as it is no longer possible to add a local music library stored on a NAS or shared device. Also the search doesn’t work on the local library any longer; it only searches the online music services. Sonos seems to have finally let down its initial user population that made Sonos big before music streaming services existed…

Either this is a deliberate choice by Sonos to reduce the functionality or someone validated a pre-beta release for production to meet some preset deadlines… In any case, don’t upgrade if you need these features.

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ploppythekangaroo

Lyricist I

Adding a Sonos library seems to be something they plan to bring back. Shouldn’t have gone really:
https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/use-a-nas-drive-with-sonos

“Sonos app version 80.0
This setting is not currently available in the Sonos app for iOS or Android, but it will return in a future update.

As a temporary workaround, please use the Sonos app for macOS or Windows to manage and update your music library.”

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HenriR NL

Enthusiast II

Missing features :

adding things to the current playlist (without removing everything else)
saving the current playlist as a new or an existing playlist

Harder : changing the sound of only one speaker when in a group

I’m back to the previous version and blocking future updates. Let's hope something will be done fast.

How did you get back to former version? Sonos support told me a few hours ago that this is not possible. I would be quite interested considering what a crime the new app is!

Bumper

Missing features :

adding things to the current playlist (without removing everything else)
saving the current playlist as a new or an existing playlist

Harder : changing the sound of only one speaker when in a group

I’m back to the previous version and blocking future updates. Let's hope something will be done fast.

How did you get back to former version? Sonos support told me a few hours ago that this is not possible. I would be quite interested considering what a crime the new app is!

On Android this is possible. iOS not possible.

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HenriR NL

Enthusiast II

The Update is a “RUSH JOB!” - I can only think someone’s finger slipped too early on pressing the RELEASE button. Sonos App Development better have plans to put the Timer, Alarm and Local Music Library features back in! This should’ve been a BETA release!

Come on Sonos! Please don’t only just listen to your customer base, act on it too. Thanks.

I do not think Sonos is listening to their consumers… they haven’t for quite some time now, and this new phase (app) looks pretty much like a suicidal move by a business that has totally lost it …

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HenriR NL

Enthusiast II

Missing features :

adding things to the current playlist (without removing everything else)
saving the current playlist as a new or an existing playlist

Harder : changing the sound of only one speaker when in a group

I’m back to the previous version and blocking future updates. Let's hope something will be done fast.

How did you get back to former version? Sonos support told me a few hours ago that this is not possible. I would be quite interested considering what a crime the new app is!

On Android this is possible. iOS not possible.

Ha, one more mischief by Sonos then (and one more illustration of how premature the release of this new version is compared to its level of development. Amazing. Thanks anyway for your answer.

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JRB5692

Lyricist II

Really bad. This is a company that can't afford a blunder like this. Couldn't set a sleep timer last night when I went to bed. Didn't get a snooze button when my alarm went off this morning. I immediately uninstalled the new app, downloaded the old one from APK mirror on my Android phone and disabled auto updates of that app. Do better!

I can't even imagine how mad I would be if I invested the time and effort to set up a local music library on my network.

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Luddy

Lyricist I

This is ridiculous. I work graveyard shifts. I literally rely on my super loud Sonos alarms to wake up otherwise I stay asleep. Now I’m laying here, just super irritated that my alarms are GONE on the iOS Sonos app. Thousands and thousands of dollars dropped into this ecosystem, and they repay me with this lazy and completely irresponsible app update? Awesome. Take away my features. Thanks Sonos. 😭

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Fluffy_1

Trending Lyricist I

You can get the old app back (on Android at least). Just download the Sonos 16.1 APK from a multitude of places, APK Pure, APK Mirror etc. Uninstall this travesty and install the old one from the APK

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MurphyOnline

Lyricist II

Really??? Sonos are you crazy?

You removed two of the most important features of my paid Sonos products without any warnings or hints.

This is not only very hideous but also very illegal in the EU and borders to fraud.

By releasing a not even Beta-worthy version you made me rethink my multi-thousand Euro investment in the Sonos-ecosystem.

Either you stand to the Error and revert to old S2 app to plan a propper restart or deliver the missing feature within DAYS (not weeks or even months).

Main Flaw #1: MISSING ALARM TIMER
Main Flaw #2: MISSING SLEEP TIMER

Let me be clear: i work as CTO and Chief Software Developer for over 30 years. I fully understand the problems and needs of software development at this scale. The more i am flubbergusted and perplexed how on earth such a misserable state of the code had been released as production-ready.

And instead of clear and consice communication when the miserable state was detected, the marketing machine switches to overdrive.

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esc4eve

Lyricist I

This new app sucks. Where did all the features go to? It’s not even any faster. Where is the personal music? I have all Sonos. Why break it if it’s already great? Come on Sonos.

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